CHARGING MANAGEMENT DEVICE, CHARGING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND CHARGING MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20160185246A1
• Filed: 03/10/2016
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: PAUL, Topon
• Application Number:
  US15/066,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20160185246A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/54 related to batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/53 Batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/63 in response to network capacity
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/67 Controlling two or more charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/126 the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]

Abstract

A charging management device has a first acquisition circuitry which acquires EV information necessary to charge each EV car in a charging station, a second acquisition circuitry which acquires stationary storage battery information, a third acquisition circuitry which acquires supply power information from a system power, a fourth acquisition circuitry which acquires charger information, a preliminary charging amount calculation circuitry which calculates a preliminary charging amount representing a charging amount of each EV car, an EV charging model storage circuitry which stores an EV charging model outputting a maximum charging amount of the EV car, and a charging condition determination circuitry which determines a charging condition that the charging time of each EV car and the maximum output power of the charger are within certain ranges, respectively, and the difference between the maximum charging amount of each EV car and the preliminary charging amount is further reduced.

Claims

1. A charging management device comprising:

a first acquisition circuitry which acquires EV information necessary to charge each EV car in a charging station;

a second acquisition circuitry which acquires stationary storage battery information including a maximum output power of a stationary storage battery provided in the charging station;

a third acquisition circuitry which acquires supply power information from a system power which can be used to charge each EV car in the charging station;

a fourth acquisition circuitry which acquires charger information including a maximum output power of a charger provided in the charging station;

a preliminary charging amount calculation circuitry which calculates a preliminary charging amount representing a charging amount of each EV car which can be charged in the charging station based on the information acquired by the first to fourth acquisition circuitries;

an EV charging model storage circuitry which stores an EV charging model outputting a maximum charging amount of the EV car by using the maximum output power of the charger and a charging time of the EV car as input parameters; and

a charging condition determination circuitry which, after a certain constraint condition is satisfied, determines a charging condition that the charging time of each EV car and the maximum output power of the charger are within certain ranges, respectively, and the difference between the maximum charging amount of each EV car and the preliminary charging amount is further reduced.

2. The charging management device according to claim 1, further comprising a charging amount adjustment circuitry which adjusts the maximum charging amount of each EV car determined by the charging condition determination circuitry based on at least one of a request charging amount and a battery residual amount of each waiting-for-charging EV car.

3. The charging management device according to claim 2, wherein the charging amount adjustment circuitry adjusts the maximum charging amount of each EV car by proportionally distributing a surplus charging amount exceeding the request charging amount among the maximum charging amounts of the EV cars determined by the charging condition determination circuitry, to the EV cars of which charging amounts do not exceed the request charging amount.

4. The charging management device according to claim 1, wherein the constraint condition includes at least one of a constraint condition associated with a request charging time requested by each EV car, a constraint condition associated with a request discharging power requested from the stationary storage battery, a constraint condition associated with a request discharging amount requested from the stationary storage battery, and a constraint condition associated with a charging waiting time of each EV car.

5. The charging management device according to claim 1, wherein the EV charging model outputs the maximum charging amount of the EV car by using the maximum output power of the charger, the charging time of the EV car, information on a battery of the EV car, and a battery residual amount of the EV car as input parameters.

6. The charging management device according to claim 1, further comprising a stationary storage battery discharging model storage which stores a stationary storage battery discharging model which outputs the maximum charging amount of the EV car and a necessary discharging amount of the stationary storage battery by using the maximum output power of the charger and the charging time of the EV car as input parameters,

wherein the charging condition determination circuitry determines the charging condition based on the EV charging model, the stationary storage battery discharging model and the preliminary charging amount so that the constraint condition is satisfied.

7. The charging management device according to claim 1, wherein the charging condition determination circuitry comprises:

a first check circuitry which acquires the maximum charging amount of the EV car corresponding to the set input parameters from the EV charging model and checks whether or not the constraint condition is satisfied;

a second check circuitry which checks whether or not the maximum charging amount acquired from the EV charging model is closer to the preliminary charging amount than to a set-in-advance maximum charging amount in a case where the constraint condition is satisfied;

a parameter update circuitry which updates the maximum charging amount and the charging time of the EV car and the maximum output power of the charger based on the input parameters in a case where the maximum charging amount acquired from the EV charging model is closer to the preliminary charging amount;

a third check circuitry which checks whether or not the charging time of the EV car included in the newly-selected input parameters is smaller than a previously-defined first lower limit value in a case where the set-in-advance maximum charging amount is closer to the preliminary charging amount or in a case where the update by the parameter update circuitry is ended; and

a fourth check circuitry which performs the check of the first check circuitry again in a case where the charging time is not smaller than the first lower limit value and checks whether or not the maximum charging amount of the EV car included in the newly-selected input parameters is smaller than a set-in-advance second lower limit value in a case where the charging time is smaller than the first lower limit value,

wherein, in a case where the charging time is not smaller than the second lower limit value, the check of the first check circuitry is performed again, and in a case where the charging time is smaller than the second lower limit value, the charging condition including the maximum charging amount and the charging time of the EV car lastly updated by the parameter update circuitry and the maximum output power of the charger is determined.

8. The charging management device according to claim 1, wherein the charging condition determination circuitry determines the maximum charging amount of each EV car of a waiting-for-charging group including one or more waiting-for-charging EV cars in the charging station and the maximum output power of the charger and determines the maximum charging amount and the charging time of each EV car of a scheduled-to-arrive group including one or more scheduled-to-arrive EV cars in the charging station and the maximum output power of the charger.

9. The charging management device according to claim 1, further comprising a route periphery information acquisition circuitry which acquires travel route information of each EV car and charging site information about charging sites existing in the periphery of the charging station,

wherein the preliminary charging amount calculation circuitry calculates necessary charging amounts of waiting-for-charging EV cars and scheduled-to-arrive EV cars based on the travel route information and the charging site information and calculates the preliminary charging amounts of the waiting-for-charging EV cars and scheduled-to-arrive EV cars by taking into consideration the necessary charging amounts.

10. The charging management device according to claim 9, wherein, in a case where the next travel route of the waiting-for-charging EV car in the charging station is unclear, the preliminary charging amount calculation circuitry calculates the necessary charging amount based on the energy necessary for the EV car traveling to the farthest charging site among the charging sites existing in the periphery of the charging station.

11. The charging management device according to claim 9, wherein, in a case where the battery residual amount of the waiting-for-charging EV car cannot be acquired, the preliminary charging amount calculation circuitry sets the battery residual amount of the EV car as a lower limit value and calculates the necessary charging amount.

12. The charging management device according to claim 1, wherein the preliminary charging amount calculation circuitry applies a weighting factor to each EV car and calculates the preliminary charging amount based on at least one of the battery residual amount of the waiting-for-charging EV car, a vehicle type of the EV car, and existence or non-existence of previous charging reservation.

13. The charging management device according to claim 1, further comprising a charging information output circuitry which provides charging information including a suppliable maximum charging amount and a maximum charging time, and charging service information including at least one of the number of waiting-for-charging EV cars, a charging waiting time, and an energy price to an EV car which newly arrives in the charging station.

14. The charging management device according to claim 13, wherein the charging information output circuitry provides the charging information to at least one of a display device provided in the charging station and an internal display circuitry of the EV car.

15. The charging management device according to claim 1, wherein in the case of the charging EV car, the EV information includes at least one of a time taken up to charging completion and a remaining supply charging amount;

in the case of the waiting-for-charging EV car, the EV information includes at least one of the number of EV cars, a battery residual amount, and an EV type; and

in the case of the scheduled-to-arrive EV car, the EV information includes the number of EV cars.

16. A charging management system comprising:

a plurality of charging stations, each of which comprising a charger and a stationary storage battery to perform charging of EV cars; and

a management circuitry which determines a charging station at which is to charge each EV car traveling in the periphery of the plurality of charging stations and manages a charging amount in the determined charging station;

wherein each of the plurality of charging stations comprises;

a first acquisition circuitry which acquires EV information necessary to charge each EV car in the charging station;

a second acquisition circuitry which acquires stationary storage battery information including a maximum output power of the stationary storage battery provided in the charging station;

a third acquisition circuitry which acquires supply power information from a system which can be used to charge each EV car in the charging station;

a fourth acquisition circuitry which acquires charger information including a maximum output power of the charger provided in the charging station;

a preliminary charging amount calculation circuitry which calculates a preliminary charging amount representing a charging amount of each EV car which can be charged in the charging station based on the information acquired from the first to fourth acquisition circuitries;

an EV charging model storage circuitry which stores an EV charging model outputting a maximum charging amount of the EV car or a necessary discharging amount of the stationary storage battery by using the maximum output power of the charger and a charging time of the EV car as input parameters; and

a charging condition determination circuitry which, after a certain constraint condition is satisfied, determines a charging condition that the charging time of each EV car and the maximum output power of the charger are within certain respective ranges and the difference between the maximum charging amount of each EV car and the preliminary charging amount is further reduced.

17. The charging management system according to claim 16, wherein the management circuitry comprises:

a fifth acquisition circuitry which acquires a travel route of the EV car traveling in the periphery of the plurality of charging stations and the EV information of the EV car;

an extraction circuitry which extracts the charging station on the travel route of the EV car based on the travel route acquired by the fifth acquisition circuitry and sites of the plurality of charging stations;

a charging condition calculation circuitry which calculates a necessary charging amount necessary for the EV car to travel to each charging station extracted by the extraction circuitry and a traveling time;

a sixth acquisition circuitry which acquires charging service information in each charging station extracted by the extraction circuitry;

a seventh acquisition circuitry which acquires or estimates a battery residual amount of the EV car; and

an EMS determination circuitry which determines the charging station where the charging of the EV car is to be performed by using a predetermined evaluation function, the necessary charging amount and the traveling time calculated by the charging condition calculation circuitry, the charging service information acquired by the sixth acquisition circuitry, and the battery residual amount acquired or estimated by the seventh acquisition circuitry as input parameters.

18. A charging management method comprising:

acquiring EV information necessary to charge each EV car in a charging station;

acquiring stationary storage battery information including a maximum output power of a stationary storage battery provided in the charging station;

acquiring supply power information from a system power which can be used to charge each EV car in the charging station;

acquiring charger information including a maximum output power of a charger provided in the charging station;

calculating a preliminary charging amount representing a charging amount of each EV car which can be charged in the charging station based on the acquired EV information, the acquired stationary storage battery information, the acquired supply power information, and the acquired charger information;

storing an EV charging model outputting a maximum charging amount of the EV car by using the maximum output power of the charger and a charging time of the EV car as input parameters; and

after a certain constraint condition being satisfied, determining a charging condition that the charging time of each EV car and the maximum output power of the charger are within certain ranges, respectively, and the difference between the maximum charging amount of each EV car and the preliminary charging amount is further reduced.